Competitions

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Tolerance can be increased by encouraging the understanding of bias and prejudice and working to remove these where we can. We work to find different ways to encourage children to learn about this, through lesson plans, books, games and competitions. This is where you can learn more about these opportunities.

Lack of knowledge and misinformation can cause fear and hatred, a key driver of bigotry and intolerance. Our aim is to help pupils to think critically about information – its sources, its accuracy and its purpose – to appreciate the complexity of ‘truth’ but also why it is important to seek it and not be gullible.

This year, through games and activities, they will practice analysing, assessing and presenting both ‘facts’ and competing narratives, in order to arrive at a reasonably accurate, fair and comprehensive picture of the truth. Our goal is help create resilient, independent, and critical thinkers.

In order to promote this approach, we have teamed up with a number of partners to provide children with opportunities to explore these ideas on their own. This year we are running three competitions:

Win a free primary school workshop at the Guardian Education Centre

The Learn2Think Young Journalists Prize, in conjunction with the Guardian Foundation and The Week Junior

A film competition with the BFI called The Bigger Picture​

Guardian Education Centre

Young Journalist of the year

The Guardian Education Centre provides programmes that provide children to interact with the news and get a realistic understanding of what it means to work in a busy news organisation.

To mark Tolerance Day, the Guardian Education Centre is offering schools that take part in Tolerance Day 2017 a free workshop on 16th November.

The Learn2Think Young Journalists Prize, in conjunction with the Guardian Foundation and The Week Junior.

For the first time ever, we are holding a competition for children aged 7-9, and 10-11 to have their voices heard as the ‘truth detectives’ of their generation.

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We not only want to find out what matters to them, but also get them thinking critically, for themselves, so that they can start to identify misinformation, develop a reasoned argument, and give voice to their own unique thoughts and opinions. The prize, in both age categories, is to get their story published and receive a laptop to continue their writing.